The Sahel and West Africa Club (SWAC) is an international platform whose Secretariat is hosted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). OECD/SWAC produces and maps data, provides informed analyses and facilitates strategic dialogue, to help better anticipate transformations in the region and their territorial impacts. Through its retrospective and prospective approach, it promotes more contextualised policies as levers for regional integration, sustainable development and stability. Its areas of work include food systems, urbanisation, climate and security. Its Members and financial partners are Austria (Federal Ministry of European and International Affairs/Austrian Development Agency), Belgium (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation), Canada (Global Affairs Canada), CILSS (Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel), the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) Commission, the European Union, GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), France (Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs/Agence française de développement), Luxembourg (Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs), the Netherlands (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), Spain (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation), Switzerland (Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation/Federal Department of Foreign Affairs), the UEMOA (West African Economic and Monetary Union) Commission and the United States (USAID).
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